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05-22-2015, 07:42 PM

#21

juneayerza

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It is paper pieced. The maker of this block, Brenda Groelz, has PP books on Amazon.

05-22-2015, 08:00 PM

#22

vickster

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darn everybody must have beat me to this as I cant find it on ebay I love this block.

05-23-2015, 04:28 AM

#23

ghostrider

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I dug out my copy of that issue just to see how it was made. Yes, paper pieced and the trick is to start each of the eight pieced wedges from the opposite end so the seams nest when you put them all together. Pretty smart idea. Directions (and yardage) are for both a 6" and a 9" block and it's rated as intermediate (skill level).

05-23-2015, 04:53 AM

#24

tessagin

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I thought it was paper pieced also (the middle section).

Quote:

Originally Posted by Taughtby Grandma

To me it looks like a take on Franny's fan. It looks like it might be paper pieced, but you could do it with the blade for the fan, then applique it to the base and add the center piece.

05-23-2015, 08:19 AM

#25

Yooper32

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Oh, Ghost, and I thought I was bad about hanging on to old quilting mags. You got me beat! Darn, no laughy face here.

05-23-2015, 11:48 AM

#26

judy363905

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tartan

I am wondering if the house part of the block isn't pieced in a regular square block and then cut into segments with a degree ruler. It is then set into a sort of Drunkard Path block. Anyone have a house block laying around to try it?

Tartan, this is exactly what I saw when I looked at this darling house block.

Judy in Phx, AZ

05-23-2015, 03:04 PM

#27

garysgal

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dodie

If you can find that lady that says it was in a quilter news letter ask her if she knows the year or number on the magazine as I have about 25 years of quilters news letters and I could look however I do not remember that exact pattern but somewhere in stacks and stacks of magazines I have one similar but it is appliqued and called house on a hill

It's issue 245.

05-23-2015, 05:06 PM

#28

thrums

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Taughtby Grandma

To me it looks like a take on Franny's fan. It looks like it might be paper pieced, but you could do it with the blade for the fan, then applique it to the base and add the center piece.

I couldn't find Franny's fan. Could you send me a link to it? Thanks!

05-23-2015, 05:12 PM

#29

thrums

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There's one left on Amazon. I took the one with the damaged cover and left one of you the pristine copy. :0)

Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, September 1996 (Volume 27, Number 7, Issue Number 285) (Single Issue Magazine)